Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. On behalf of the NWT and Nunavut Chamber of Mines and the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, I'd like to express my appreciation for the opportunity to speak to you all today in relation to Bill C-47. I am Nadim Kara. I am the

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  First of all, these figures aren't adjusted for inflation, so that's one point.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll start off, and then I'll pass it to my colleague Mr. Meyers. There are a couple of points I want to make. The first is that the difference between the two graphs is significant, in that one is absolute value and one is relative value. While the figures on slide 12 may be qu

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The second is what we're seeing with the huge upswing in metal prices throughout the 2000s. Graph 13 shows that despite similar geology and despite similar logistical challenges, NWT should have seen a similar upswing in maintaining its percentage of overall exploration in Canada

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  From the exploration perspective, the significance of land use planning can't be overstated, in the sense that exploration dollars flow where they're allowed to flow, and if communities don't want us to flow somewhere, land use planning is the mechanism through which they can tel

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thanks for the question. I think there are few dimensions here. Maybe I'll speak to the impact of uncertainty on exploration and perhaps Rick and Pierre can talk about the impact of uncertainty on mine development. The first point is that when you invest scarce resources in an

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, exactly. The security of mineral tenure at the exploration stage becomes the critical precondition for the financing that generates that high-risk investment. When you work in an area where you have unsettled land claims or massive interim land withdrawals, such as in the

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Okay.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We would.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Since the comments on the amendments are for this presentation, I'll start with one, perhaps, and then turn it over. Recognizing that you haven't had a chance to review it, let me just enter into the record my hope that for our next submission we will have a chance to have that d

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Our two associations have spoken about this in detail, and we've decided our message would be that a minor variant is best left to be determined under the applicable land use plan.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll defer to the NPC.

Environment committee  Good afternoon, Madam Chair and committee members. Thank you for this opportunity to speak here today. For those of you who are not familiar with the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, or PDAC, we represent the Canadian mineral exploration and development industry

Environment committee  Thank you for that question. The focus for us is really on the process. The way you find the balance is by bringing the diverse perspectives together. We believe in that landscape-scale dialogue process, which will allow the people who are directly impacted by the landscape to sh

Environment committee  —the potential is not included.